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(1) Existing law establishes the Golden State Financial Marketplace Program or GS $Mart Program (program) . Existing law authorizes the Department of General Services to structure, administer, and maintain the program, the state's centralized financing program available for state agencies to finance certain goods and services, as described. Existing law makes state agencies, defined to include every state office, officer, department, division, bureau, board, and commission and the California State University and the Regents of the University of California, eligible to apply to the program in order to enter into agreements for financing those specified assets, including, but not limited to, energy efficiency measures, energy savings contracts, or technology goods or services, without further competitive bidding. Existing law also authorizes state agencies to refinance any eligible asset through the program for various purposes. This bill would extend these provisions to also include a superior court, court of appeal, the Supreme Court, the Judicial Council of California, and the State Bar of California within the definition of state agency. (2) Existing law requires the Judicial Council to adopt rules to establish standards and guidelines for the creation, maintenance, reproduction, and preservation of court records, to ensure the accuracy and preserve the integrity of the records, and ensure that the public can access and reproduce the records. Existing law requires standards and guidelines for the electronic creation, maintenance, and preservation of court records to ensure that the public can access and reproduce records with at least the same amount of convenience as paper records previously provided. This bill would require, commencing October 1, 2026, and annually thereafter, the Judicial Council to update the Assembly and Senate Judiciary Committees regarding remote accessibility of electronic court records by the public. The bill would repeal this requirement on January 1, 2029. (3) Existing law authorizes the Judicial Council to sell specific courthouses at fair market value and upon the terms and conditions the Judicial Council deems in the best interests of the state. This bill would authorize the Judicial Council to sell additional specified courthouses. The bill would require the net proceeds from the sale to be deposited into the State Court Facilities Construction Fund. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.